Came home from school today, relieved to find out the UPS guy hadn't stopped by yet. An hour and a half later, he arrives with seven boxes of awesome. Naturally, I started opening immediately.

Before I begin, I should mention that I bought my Corsair H50 Cooling System, Logitech G110 Gaming Keyboard, and Intel Core-i7 950 (3.06 Ghz, quad) beforehand at Micro Center. Thanks to Aka for pointing out the store to me.

Box #1This box was the most obvious, because rather than being in a Newegg box it was in the original NZXT LEXA S box.

My hands plunged into the depths, searching for something, anything that indicated there was more. Near the bottom, the landed gently upon a plastic wrapped box. Plastic wrapped boxes feel surprisingly like metal when they're cold. It was my motherboard, my beautiful EVGA X58 ATX Intel Motherboard.

Box #7At last, the final box. There could be only one thing in it, my tiny network card, but this box was more than a cubic foot in size. Something had to be wrong..

Inside the box was another box. Inside that, bubble wrap, wrapped around two flat trays bound together by some annoying shoe-lace-like plastic. After removing it, I found out that this unnecessarily-large box did indeed contain merely my internet chip.

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Oh yes, I certainly remember your excitement ever since you first ordered it. Especially your laments about not having your Cup Warmer yet xD. That's pretty epic DL, I can't wait to see the full rig... and then cry about it because I have a sad little machine in comparison and definitely don't have the money to improve upon it .

Also... 21.5" monitors? 150 dollars a piece? . I should invest in you or something and hope you get famous so that I can have whoppingly large screens xP

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Re: DL's Awesome New Rig • Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:03 pm

I can't wait to talk to him tomorrow and see how much trouble he had putting it together.

Especially since he didn't mention a few really important cables arriving.

EDIT: Turns out, he had the cables after a recent excursion to MicroCenter, and is almost done with the assembly.

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Re: DL's Awesome New Rig • Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:22 pm

I did want to ask... a cup warmer? I guess I just prefer cool drinks over warm ones.

I would have gotten a cup cooler... though... I don't have any spare USB ports anymore... so many things connected.

EDIT: Great cable management by the way.

I can also see why you want new monitors. MY GAWD. No offense, but dayum... You need new monitors.

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Re: DL's Awesome New Rig • Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:01 pm

Half the assembly time was managing those cables. If the main power was a bit longer, that could have been managed, too.

Also, I like to calm down with nice, warm beverages, like cider and hot cocoa.

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